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Outcast | اللامنتمي · 2Y ago

A New Home

This blog has found a new home at http://www.anasqtiesh.com . If you have an RSS subscription please update it to http://www.anasqtiesh.com/feed/ . I’ve had a good run on this blog although I had a poor average of one post per month. Anyway, it was time to move on to a self-hosted domain where I can
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Outcast | اللامنتمي · 2Y ago

Bringing Nothing to the Party by Paul Carr

Today Paul Carr, my favorite author on Tech Crunch, announced that he will make the pdf version of his latest book “Bringing Nothing to Party” available for free through a Creative Commons licence allowing noncommercial redistribution while crediting his website htttp://www.paulcarr.com . I haven’t
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Outcast | اللامنتمي · 2Y ago

No Way Through

The following video came through my RSS reader. It’s an award winning short film on the illegal checkpoints imposed by the Israeli Occupation(sic). Routinely, Palestinians in need of immediate medical attention are denied access to it, harassed, assaulted, and forced to give birth with out access to
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Outcast | اللامنتمي · 2Y ago

Welcome to Hell: Mohammed Omer

I had the opportunity to attend a presentation by the brilliant Palestinian journalist and photographer Mohammed Omer which was properly named Welcome to Hell. He demonstrated the the situation in Gaza, the Israeli war crimes, and his experience as a journalist working under the Israeli occupation i
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Outcast | اللامنتمي · 2Y ago

Blog Action Day 2009 – Climate Change

Care to act? Today is Blog Action Day, this year’s theme is Climate Change which many of you know is happening rapidly. Sea levels are rising at an increasing pace, and we’re losing glaciers and polar ice caps. Global action on the subject is a long way from being satisfactory or effective. The US d
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Outcast | اللامنتمي · 2Y ago

For Fuckin’ Fuck’s Sake! Cut it Out!

Karim Arbaji has just been sentenced to three years in prison for defending human rights in Syria. Meanwhile, the Syrian blogosphere is bustling with posts advocating admirable and worthy campaigns. There’s the astounding campaign against masturbation, the noble Blogging Week for Moral Decay, and th
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Outcast | اللامنتمي · 2Y ago

Newsweek Article Suggests Appointing Bush as U.S. Mideast Envoy

Gregory Levey suggested in the Newsweek today that President Obama should appoint George W. Bush as his Mideast envoy to gain the trust of Israelis in order achieve the American “wish list” with the Israeli Government. The “full-court press” wishes are the following: They want Israel to stop expandi
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Outcast | اللامنتمي · 2Y ago

Life’s Residue

Sometimes I wish I don’t have such a capacity for details. My brain cells are always engaged in computing the unsaid words,unannounced actions, hidden motives. I have repeatedly knew certain people’s future actions and reactions, even way before they even knew or decided on a course of action. Somet
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Outcast | اللامنتمي · 2Y ago

Blogging for a Cause: Global Voices Advocacy

As a part of Zemanta’s “Blogging for a Cause” month, I would like to pay homage to Global Voices Advocacy, a non-profit organization and sister project of Global Voices Online. Global Voices Advocacy, or “Advox” as it is affectionately called, seeks to advocate on behalf of the rights of bloggers an
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Outcast | اللامنتمي · 3Y ago

When the Chinese Come to Town

Lock down all your traditional handicrafts workshops! Visitors to Damascus can no longer visit the shisha/hookah/arkileh workshops, they’re off limits to tourists now. but why? one might ask. The story goes as such: one day Chinese tourists go visit one of those workshops with cameras and camcorders
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